Michelle
Nichols
Founder, Hug Your Kids
TODAY Project |
I'm Michelle
Nichols, the founder of
the Hug Your Kids project.
Formerly, I was the Savvy
Selling columnist
and podcast host for BusinessWeek.com,
a record-setting salesperson
and professional speaker.
I created the nationwide
billboard campaign “Hug
Your Kids Today.”
It will launch July 21,
2008 and become an annual
event. The book, "Hug
Your Kids TODAY: 5 Key
Lessons for Every Working
Parent" will be available
for the launch.
Our son, Mark, died suddenly
in 1998, at age 8 1/2
years old from brain cancer.
On Mark's 5-year anniversary
we had billboards in Houston
put up that said, "Hug
Your Kids Today. We Wish
We Could. In Memory of
Mark Steven Nichols 1989-1998."
We learned the hard way
of the urgency for all
working parents to not
delay and hug their kids
TODAY . |
Here is
a photo of my son Mark
and I when he was about
6 years old. He and I
started a business making
"lap counting necklaces"
for runners at our local
YMCA in Austin, Texas.
It had an indoor track
with 17 laps to the mile.
The necklaces made it
easier for the runners
to keep track of how many
laps they'd run.
It was our first business
together but he started
other businesses later
on his own. After we moved
to Reno, he tried to sell
snow fort designs to the
local kids. Business was
slow so he built a fort
or two at school and tried
to sell spaces in his
forts for snowball fights
during recess.
We shared a lot of hugs.
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Mark
Nichols (1989-1998) and
Michelle Nichols |
SPEAKER
Michelle speaks to working
parents on the importance of
hugging their kids every day
to corporate, industry, cancer,
grief, and Christian audiences.
She has given seminars and
workshops to groups from ten
to five hundred on sales to
corporate and industry audiences,
including HP, Hibernia Bank,
Clarica Insurance, ASAE, the
National Ground Water Association
and the US Postal Service.
She is a member of the prestigious
National Speakers Association
and the past Chair of the sales
experts for NSA.
COLUMNIST and AUTHOR
Michelle Nichols is the author
of over 150 Savvy Selling columns
published in BusinessWeek.com.
BusinessWeek sent her columns
to over 200,000 subscribers
worldwide. She also published
an Idea Generation Guide: Generate
YOUR Brilliant Ideas to Find
New Customers and Close More
Sales.
PODCASTER and CD CREATOR
Michelle has written and recorded
45 interview-style Savvy Selling
podcasts for BusinessWeek.com.
Her guests were all sales experts,
including Mr. Zig Ziglar, “the
Master Motivator.”
She has also written and recorded
three sales CD’s: Savvy
Selling 101: How to Sell More,
Sell Faster and Keep Smiling!;
What Your Customers DON”T
Want You to Know: 72 Ways to
Overcome the Price Objection;
and One Big Idea to Rocket Your
Sales.
PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT
Of all her accomplishments,
Michelle is most proud to be
the wife of Ron for over 20
years and the mother of Mark,
Amy and Devin. She strives to
hug them and tell them she loves
them every day.
To learn more about my background
as a professional speaker and
sales expert, click
here. |
